Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:15:38 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDI 2.0 vs. FreeBSD 2.x Message-ID: <199606181515.LAA03349@etinc.com>
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>> Karl, knowing you from the days of ISC I'm surprised you would >> give BSDI that much slack. I hardly think that an OS lacking >> a 'lockd' qualifies as an NFS server. Try juggling a network >> of BSDI NFS realestate in a network of machines that can >> actually do file locking... not fun. > >NOBODY does NFS file locking properly. NOBODY. > >Trust me on this -- 10+ years of experience with this beast has convinced me >that absolutely no one has implemented NFS locking in a manner that I would >trust for anything mission critical. So I don't. > >> I too was stunned by my recent BSDI pricing... only a matter of time. another point for Novell! Dennis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX
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